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Colonel Colin Mackenzie, C.B., F.R.S., Surveyor General of all India
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After Thomas Hickey
Colonel Colin Mackenzie, C.B., F.R.S., Surveyor General of all India
aquatint, published Madras, 1816, laid paper
P. 28½ x 18¾in. (72.5 x 47.5cm.)
Colonel Colin Mackenzie, C.B., F.R.S., Surveyor General of all India
aquatint, published Madras, 1816, laid paper
P. 28½ x 18¾in. (72.5 x 47.5cm.)
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Colonel MacKenzie of the Madras Engineers was Surveyor General of India from 1817 to 1821. This portrait shows MacKenzie with his peon, Kistnaji, holding his telescope. On the left is his old Jain pundit with a palm-leaf and a little to the rear his Telegu Brahmin pundit. In the distance is the Jain statue of Sravana Belgola which Mackenzie was the first to measure and record and beside it stands the survey signal of a pole and basket. Archer pp. 232-233, India and British Portraiture 1770-1825.